Mena Trott is the 28-year-old founder of leading blog software company Six Apart (Creators of Typepad, Movable Type, LiveJournal and Vox). In this talk, she explores the personal side of blogging. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 17:30) Download this talk: Audio (MP3) | Video...

In response to my summary on trade and prices, DM asks an important question, which goes right to the heart of the debate on globalization: Let us say an new barber moves into my neighborhood. He offers the same quality service as my old barber, but is cheaper. So I use the new barber. A factor...

I just came back from a conference in Spain, where this was the question on the table. I made the following points. First, expenditure cuts are not going to do the job on their own, unless accompanied by policies targeted directly at improving competitiveness. Second, "structural reforms" (which...

It’s been a strangely prolific week publishing-wise. Literally within a few days of each other, I held in my hands two new books with my name on it. As you might gather from their cover, they couldn’t be more different. The first is a book that lays out my ideas on globalization and its futur...

Well at least a couple of them. I gave a talk with this name at LSE the other day, which was extremely well attended. I am not happy with the title at all, which as I joked, makes me sound like a Tom Friedman wannabe. But it does capture a couple of key ideas I was trying to get across: the m...